Virginia Democrats turn themselves into pretzels to ‘stop Donald Trump’ with gerrymander

Take, for example, the case of Virginia’s current redistricting referendum. Democrats in the Old Dominion, empowered by their victories in last fall’s off-year election, are raising and spending tens of millions of dollars campaigning to win voter approval for their scheme to redraw the state’s congressional district boundaries to flip the state’s U.S. House delegation from a 6-5 Democrat-to-Republican advantage to a possible 10-1 Democrat-to-Republican advantage.

That possible four-net-seat gain is twice as large as the Republicans’ current margin of control over the House and, more importantly, could be the deciding factor in determining which party controls the House after November’s elections.

REJECT VIRGINIA’S ELECTION-RIGGING CONSTITUTIONAL REDISTRICTING AMENDMENT

To move from a relatively evenly divided 6-5 map to a grossly lopsided possible 10-1 map, political cartographers had to think outside the box. After all, it’s not as if 91% of Virginia’s voters regularly vote for Democratic candidates for the House;